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October 22, 2016
The Great Netflix and Twitter Outage of 2016
Yesterday the unthinkable happened, if only for a brief while. Both Twitter and Netflix were down for about 90 minutes thanks to a DDoS attack. Thanks? Yes. For 90 glorious minutes the human race reached its infinite potential. Without those two time wasting sites available, productivity in the United States rose by 327%. People actually showed up to work on time and when they got there, all hyped up by their morning coffee and their anxiety about the Netflix and Twitter outage, they were ac...
October 20, 2016
Throwback Thursday! The Top Ten Ways People Ruin Halloween
Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. If I wasn’t a full grown adult I’d dress up and go Trick or Treating. I do have some pet peeves though about people who don’t share my love of this holiday.
10. “Fun Size” candy:There is nothing fun about a candy bar so small that it wouldn’t give a sugar rush to a hummingbird. For cripes sake! It’s once a year, you can splurge for the full size.
9.Turning Out Your Lights:Are you the house that turns out your lights and hides in a back room pretendin...
October 19, 2016
Wordless Wednesday: And She’s Buying A Stairway…
Taken at Clyde’s of Georgetown, Washington D.C.
Have a great Wednesday! ~Phil
Tagged: Clyde's of Georgetown, The Phil Factor, Wordless Wednesday
October 18, 2016
Top Ten Tuesday! The Ten Scariest Movies of All Time
Feeling in the mood for some Halloween scares? Check out the movies on this list, created from a painstaking culling of countless online lists of scary movies. These are the ten that appeared most often on most of the lists. I posted this list last year and it resulted in a lot of suggestions for other great scary movies. Feel free to add your two cents in the comments.
10. Psycho (1960)Believe it or not, this one almost didn’t make the list. This is a classic that has spawned countless imit...
October 16, 2016
Phil Says…Scotland: The Pennsylvania of The United Kingdom
If you missed it yesterday, Steve of Steve Says had me as a guest on his blog.
Scotland: The Pennsylvania of The United Kingdom I sit here on a beach in America on the tailgate of my pickup truck gazing out across an ocean. I’m not sure which one, but because I’m in America, it must be the biggest one. I feel secure because I have a beer in one hand, a gun in the other, and beef jerky in the other. I also feel secure because Scotland is on the other side of this great big ocean...
October 15, 2016
My Emotional Support Animal Is A Gummy Bear
From the cinematic masterpiece Snakes on a Plane
This post is going to make some people mad, but I’m going to write it anyway. Last week I had to travel by plane for work. As I sat in the terminal waiting for my plane to board I heard a meow. I look over and the woman sitting next to me had a cat in a small carrier. That’s fine. I like cats and it was in a carrier. But you know what, if that cat was going to be in the seat next to me meowing for the entire flight I might not be OK with that....
October 13, 2016
Cleanliness is Next To…Phil?
Sorry for the re-run, but it is Throwback Thursday. Please enjoy this classic Phil Factor post from 2013
I had to travel for work this past week and as usual that almost always is the genesis for a good blog post. This week was no different.
I used to always ask for an exit row seat when I flew because they have more room due to the door there. It was like getting first class leg room for free. Unfortunately about two years ago the airlines caught on and started charging extr...
October 8, 2016
Clown Lives Matter!
Many of you are familiar with the current clown crisis in the United States. I would like to say that me reporting on it and a guy in Northampton, England who did it, were way ahead of the curve. Back in Sept. 2013 I wrote about the Northampton Clown.
If you are not familiar with the “clown crisis” in the United States, first let me decrease your anxiety by stating that it has nothing to do with Donald Trump. The clown crisis is a trend of people dressing as creepy clowns and behaving in som...
October 6, 2016
Throwback Thursday! I’m Not A Doctor, But There’s an App For That
10/19/2013) I went to my doctor yesterday because I was bitten by a radioactive spider and I seem to have super-human strength and sticky hands. Well, that and maybe a sinus infection. So of course they decided to weigh me to decide if my sinus infections body mass index was too high. After seeing my weight I’m pretty sure my sinus infection weighs about 10 pounds.
Then I went into the holding cellexam room. My doctors office is very deceptive. They always take you back from the waiting room...
October 4, 2016
Top Ten Tuesday! Ten More Best TV Show Theme Songs
Back in August I posted The Ten Best TV Show Theme Songs Ever, and found it tremendously difficult to narrow it down to just ten. Then my readers chimed in with more suggestions that were all just as good, so here are 11-20 of the best TV show theme songs ever list.
20. The Littlest Hobo:I never saw the show, and it was suggested by Steve of Steve Sayswho’s from Scotland, so I’m not sure where the show is from. It appears to be one of those 70’s theme songs that tell the whole story.
19. Gam...
